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Recent Examples of evacueeOne reunification center at an elementary school was mostly quiet after taking in hundreds of evacuees the day before.—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 July 2025 One reunification center at an elementary school was mostly quiet Saturday after taking in hundreds of evacuees the day before.—arkansasonline.com, 6 July 2025 Tourism was about to nosedive throughout the country, but the resort was busy, scrambling to accommodate hundreds of evacuees who had just arrived from Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the communities near the Gaza Strip which Hamas had struck.—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 Related article Vietnam War Fast Facts Landing on the roof, the Sea Knight took on another stream of evacuees – and no Ambassador Martin.—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuee
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refugee
Noun
In 1999, then-Fort Dix provided temporary shelter to hundreds of Kosovo refugees amid the Kosovo War.
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20 July 2025
On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where the Magnum photographer Sakir Khader was preparing to leave for his grandmother’s home in Nablus.
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